For Your Hugo Award Consideration: A Very Big, Non-Endorsement List of Things to Love

We’re not going to release a Skiffy and Fanty endorsed set of Hugo Award nomination lists this year (though I might do so on my personal blog in the next month). Yes, we’re eligible for Best Fancast (and technically you can nominate our Sharknado episode for Best Related Work OR “The Great Lake Conspiracy (A Mustache and the Mutt Mystery)” for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) if you want to be cute). We do appreciate every vote we’ve received so far.

But this post isn’t about us. It’s about all the books, writers, critics, movies, and so on that have been a part of the show throughout 2013. So what follows is a giant list of possibilities. At the very least, it’ll give you something new to check out.

Here goes (only eligible works will be listed; Torture Cinema films have been left off, because you shouldn’t vote for them anyway):

Books and Short Fiction

The Burn Zone by James K. Decker (from Episode 129)

The Best of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord (from Episode 131)

Shadow Ops: Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole (from Episode 126)

Blood’s Pride by Evie Manieri (from Episode 132)

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (from Episode 135)

The Red: First Light by Linda Nagata (from Episode 136)

Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson (from Episode 137)

Liar’s Blade by Tim Pratt (from Episode 140)

The Age Atomic by Adam Christopher (from Episode 140)

Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan (from Episode 142)

London Falling by Paul Cornell (from Episode 143)

Without a Summer by Mary Robinette Kowal (from Episode 146)

Tarnished by Rhiannon Held (from Episode 148)

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes (from Episode 149)

The Daughter’s Star by Susan Jane Bigelow (from Episode 151)

The Split Worlds Series by Emma Newman (from Episode 151, Episode 172, and Episode 178)

Conservation of Shadows by Yoon Ha Lee (from Episode 152)

The Flames of Shadam Khoreh by Brad Beaulieu (from Episode 154)

Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter (from Episode 154)

Geekomancy & Celebromancy by Mike Underwood (from Episode 156 and Episode 164)

The Daedalus Incident by Michael J. Martinez (from Episode 157)

The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Francis Long (from Episode 160)

Heart of Briar by Laura Anne Gilman (from Episode 165)

Love is the Law by Nick Mamatas (from Episode 170 and Episode 177)

Under the Empyrean Sky by Chuck Wendig (from Episode 171)

The Mad Scientist’s Daughter & The Pirate’s Wish by Cassandra Rose Clarke (from Episode 174)

Two Serpents Rise by Max Gladstone (from Episode 175)

David D. Levine (story in Old Mars edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois)(from Episode 175)

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (from Episode 179)

The Death of Tao by Wesley Chu (from Episode 182)

Billy Moon by Douglas Lain (from Episode 183)

The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar (from Episode 187)

Sunburnt Faces by Shimon Adaf (from Episode 188)

Movies

Star Trek Into Darkness (from Shoot the WISB #02)

Man of Steel (from Shoot the WISB #03)

World War Z (from Shoot the WISB #04)

Pacific Rim (from Shoot the WISB #05)

Elysium (from Shoot the WISB #06)

The World’s End (from Shoot the WISB #07)

Riddick (from Shoot the WISB #08)

Gravity (from Shoot the WISB #09)

Catching Fire (from Shoot the WISB #11)

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (from Shoot the WISB #12)

TV Shows

Though we didn’t discuss much in the way of television this year, these are some of the sf/f shows that were mentioned (positively) at one point or another: